Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, November 27, 1922, Page 1

COURT Ruling of District Court Judge Horsky at Helena Exonerates Frank Conley- and Others Accused of Graft — HELENA, Mont., Nov. 27.—A complete victors for Frank Conley, former warden of the Montana penitentiary who was sued by the state for an accounting after he had been re- placed by Gov. J. M. Dixon in the opinion and ruling handed down this morning by Judge} A.J. Horsky of the district court in Heiena. { ‘The decision was a complete exoner- ation of the members of all prison boards from 1903 to 1921, and their actions. Conley was favored on alt causes ot! Court J us tic e action “brought by the state except sthe fourteenth; on which the state is allowed $65.12. Conley lost on all his counter claims excent the eighth and ninth, on which he was allowed $623.18, which will offset the amount of the claim allowed the state, giving a settlement of $555.07 due to Conley from the state. In. the second cause of action against Conley, relating to the Valiton ranch in Powel) county, Which Conley declared he bought for the state and tor which he held the title in escrow until the state should pay him, the state was given opportunity until March 15, 1923, take over the land and equipment on payment of the amounts invested. in them by Conley. Most of these amounts were mentioned in the evidence, but any payments since those brought up in the trial must be determined by the court on appll- cation BY ibe state. < The counté¥ claims brought sgainet the state by Conley were, the court held, were, with the exception of the eighth and“hinth, part of the general arrangements entered into by- the state prison boards and Conley, and Were dismissed. In the decision against the two claims no judgment was given against the state because the district court ot enter an affirmative judgment against the state without its consent, but the allowance of thé claims will more than offset the $65.12. allowed to the state on the one cause of action Gecided in its favor. The state's claims against Conley originally aggregated approximately $350,000, but the total was scaled down during the trial to about $330,- 000, which stood as the amount which “Montana would have been allowed from the former warden of the peni- tentiary had the state been successful in its entire contention. The-decision composes 210 pages of typewritten maiter. The causes cf action recited by the state recited that Conley had used hay xalsed on land rented by the) state to feed his horses, had boueht -gasoline and tires at state expense for his own automobiles, that he had | removed state owned property from | the warehouse at the. penitentiarg at | Deer Lodge when he left the position of warden on April/17, 1921, and other} allégations on. which compensation! was asked. roe cL eee Lord Leverhulme, the great Eng- lish soap manufacturer who has just been created a Viscount, commenced his climb of the ladder of riches be- hind the counter of his father’s shop | as a boy of sixteen, tolling early and | responsible’ for~ his renom!na‘ion: at! tor, late for a shilling a week. i WYOMING FAVOR PACIFIC DIVORC WASHINGTON, Nov. 27.—Public service commissions of two western states—Wyoming and Idaho—put themselve on record today before the interstate commerce commission as favoring separation of the Centra] Pacific from the Souther Pacific, while the Nevada commission urged continuation of the merger. z 0 nis pressed their views at the hearing on the Southern Pacific’s application for authority to retain the Central Pacific, although EX-WARDEN Committee members said afterwat ‘that stepk* fad ‘been ‘taken to se: nationally with. the + VICTOR April, 1921, was cpntained in } Appointment of Meets Contest WASHINGTON,’ Nov. 27.—Action | by the senate judielary on the nomi- pation of Piero» Butler of St, Paul as aseociate justice of the supreme court was deferred today to permit investl- gation of a statement forwarded by a westera’ Inwyer regarding Mr. Butler‘s | professional connections with certain | railroads. “The name of the lawyer} who made the statement was not re- vealed, nor were the details mage public. The statement was sent here , by telegraph and was Inid before the | committee by Senator T. J. ‘Waiish, | democrat, “Montana; STANDARD OIL OF INDIANA TO BOOST CAPITAL CHICAGO, Nov. 27.—(By The As- sociated Press:}—Directors of the Standard Oll company of Indiana today called a stockbolders’ meet- ing for December 28 to vote on 1 proposal to increase the capital stock from $140,000,000 to $250,000,- 000 through a stock dividend of 100 | per cent. | } G. O. P. Leader in: Colorado Dead DENVER, Co% M. » Noy, 27,—Archie Stevenson, prominently identified Republican par- ty a tew years ago and a leader in the party in Colorado, died here to- day as a result of an attack of pneu monia. > Stevenson was a member Colorado delegation to the Republi-| ean national convention in Chicago in 1912 when the progressive party was formed. Stevenson insisted that the Colorado delegation remain in{ the convention at the time Roosevelt withtrew and later was credited, ac-! cording to his associates in Colorado by President Taft, with beirig largely of the that time. GIRL HUNGER STRIKER IS FREED TODAY DUBLIN, Nov. © 27.—(BP The Associated Press. )—Miss Mary MacSwiney, who has been hunger striking in Mount Joy prison, was released to-. day. Her release came on of her huhger strike. She bad refused to take food since her arrest on November 4, when she was seized during a ralc on a home in Ayiesbury. road by nationalist troops—who were sesking Eamon De Valera. the 23rd day ee RES Up to a qaurter of a-ceritury azo it Wa, customary for the banks, in England to fix $500 ax the«minimur | amount for open‘ng an account. Some} f te bis institutions in London in.| ted on $5,000. eee epelin Scene Accept criticism; all the wisdom in the world {s not under one hat. of Turkey's new murthern berder, from the Agean to the Black seas. Th's , tion ofa ono. includes Adriaxiaple and the Maritza river. ? ‘The raliway up the Maritza river from Dedeagatch to Karsghatch, across the Te from Adrianopie, #, and will be assured freedom of use in case of war. SPORTS MARKETS see ee ee NUMBER 43. Curb on The Turk \Sentence of From 10 Years to Life for! an appeal from th Beating Rival to Death With Iron Is » Given Mrs. Clara Phillips on Arraign- ment Today; Stay Is Requested LOS ANGELES, Nov. 27.—Mrs. of murd in the second degree Meadows with a hammer, was tod antenced to serve from ten years to life in the state penitentiary at San Quentin. ten-day stay was asked to permit her attorneys to formulate judgment and sentence, Clara Phillips, convicted for killing Mrs. Alberta ‘Tho allies have decided to demilitarjze a strip 15 miles wide on cach side to be neutralized also. Bulgaria will be given rights on The map shows the demilitarized zouc In relation to the rest of Thrace. SEPARATE PEACE BETWEEN U.S. AND TURKEY ($ CONSIDERED AT LAUSANRKE CONFERENCE, REPORT PARIS, Nov. 27.—(By The Associated Press.) —Prepara- separate treaty between Turkey and the United s under consideratio: at Lausanne, says a dispatch to mps. The correspondent suggests that this perhaps was the subject of yesterday’s long conversation between Richard Washburn Child and Ismet Pasha. States FREIGHT RATE REDUCTIONS ON® MANY COMMODITIES ARE ASKED CLEMENCEAU | ATTACKED AGAIN IN THE SENATE: Senator Hitchcock Strikes Back at Tiger’s Reply to Criticisms Las Week. | WASHINGTOD ate debate today on the recent ut- terances sf former ri*emier Clem- enceau of France took 2 sensatik al turn, when a Negro the uniform of the United States army interrupted from the gallery a speech by Senator Hitchcock of Nebraska, ranking Democrat of the | foreign relations committee, regard- ing -alleged , atrocities by black French troops in Germany. The soldier who said he was Lu- clus oJnes, a patient at the Mount Alto, Maryland government hos- ‘pital, finally was removed from the | gallery-by the police. WASHINGTO: ‘was renewed in the senate views. of former u of Fran of Nebraska at, on the foreign rela- tions committee, striking back at the ‘Tiger's reply to his yecent speech, called attention that Clemenceau said that “I have been retired office by the peopl “Let me ." continued the sena “that M. Clemenceau also is out of office by the votes of peopl Senator ranking democi from RADIO ¢ | Casper Situation and WayIs Paved |m nt for ‘SURDAY HIGHT to Make Demands for Revision he: SCORES ACAI - Ss to offi the go | pers the: The Kiwanis qua ed were, very. ple the organization, a few ' Mr, Bre snderec a clarinet) Freight Serv }solo that al) that could de-|Up vith the ra‘lroads the pr j sired, while {solos that contributed Jeral excetence. ome of the selecttons which werg ice of thé Tribune jast night by| Richter Music aid not | 4 off as scheduled aUsE certain | astern bolots, delivered | lelivered | caities which represented the ‘me Hiurgely conspmed articles of this clt comp! be ny sons whd ¥ ve m were unable present. to-sing one or two songs which|Work. Each of these articles Is sal credit to/to bear a discriminatory ra Within juz and, did ‘Mr. May Shaw sang two|reducing the rates. Mr. McGarr: leased immensely andalso|teday that he had no hesitancy plano selectionse of gen-/ Saying that reductions ‘wer? ‘expec: jto come from this meeting sllace was. understood to. ti n Casper and those points and the supreme court has ordered separation. Representative Mondell, the Republican house leader, aiding the Wyoming commission in argument against th: Representatives of the three commissioners ex C befonicthe cxeeutite the'-rer his none of your questionnaires de of departmen riculture’ expert sloped. I am therefore of the opin and legal de: on the proposed] ‘om that so far as concerns rates be-| Tt rney general waa] ‘Ween Casper and the Missouri river. | invited into conference by ‘the| ¥e: would omplish more by askl ! RESINS il dtl the lega!} “or 4 reduction to the basis of the Ne Saiante ceiein with, parttcit ska scale to the Denver “toi reference to the Clayton anti-trust a Se" basis + by as| r the ‘olorado common point “The accepted theory in. applyi he ton mile earn!ngs rule is that the rnings per mile should decreas+ “ith the longer Casper rates many cases produc much greater HMIDDIES GIVER SCORING, PROBE TO BE ORDERED WASHINGTON, Nov. 2 The con OWCERT Progress M sy Experts on Probe of A mecting of the freight rate committee of the Casper ani) when Chamber of Commerce was held this noon at the Henning to os | hear W. E. McGarry, vice president and general manager of |[ have been breadeasted from the| the General. Freight Service association of St. Louis, deliver} or by} a report on the progress m the way of obtaining more equit- ble and less discriminatory freight rates into Caaper from To Mr, McGarry stated that 30 com-| Cheyenn © Was obtain-|have been taken ax bases'on which to ¢ which ° hey prokram broadcasted ag Would save Casper business men thou Jusual by the Wyoming Radio cor-/84nds of dollars poration | {a Mr. McGarry, “While we caa - —_--— lc demonstrate that the ARMOUR PROJECT DIZCt }Casper rates are much too high, it jean hdrdly be said that the evidence WASHINGTON. Nov —The pro-|Warrants the establishment of the posal of J, Ogden Armour that the|same rates as apply from the Misso {government approve the purchase by|tiver to Cheyenne and L r. {Armour and company of Morris. and) parisons might be made of ra’ company, another! of the “Big Five,’;mileages with more distant points in Siibago. Fa was the the Colorado Cormmon Pe group, conference uch as Pueblo, ‘Trinidad Pre te, mut such comparisons wry Mitle or no weight in the ab-, es nee of any showi of competition | LAUSAN? Associated Press.) ates to the near east conference ommunication to the pr inference today demanding t admission of the Russian representa tives for the discussion of all ques tions on the agenda eo that a durable peace might be sign: TAU ‘E, Noy. —(By th sociated Preas.}—Lord “Curzon, the | British foreign secretary, to day au- |thorized an official statement to the pr England supports the | Am “open door" policy in Tur nd regards the San Remo agree for division of the Mosul oil null and yold. the oll —By | | LAUSANNE H Mosul Associated fields are p the part of Pur time comes to m |the conte |correspondent today. ROBERTSON TO GO ON TRIAL r mile than do th or Crawford rat ‘The freight rate discussion has oc: cupied much labor and has been sty al months in the deveioping, Ques-| nnaires were sent out a tong tims| business men fot imination figures| much of ucts re shipped into was from these naires that the ice asec venue pr | enver, | t ago to Casper dis dence of showing we Casper. s to question-| eral Freight rked out plans fc ation w | ADA, ¢ » Nov. 27.—(By The As: j ed Press.)—Governor J. B, A. uetion of the freight rates} Robertson of Oklahoma will go will benefit not only the business. trial on a charge of bribery in dis. man, but the consumer. [trict court here Decembe 2 WEDRESDAY’S TRIBUNE TO B =: PLACED IN HOMES BY 1 P.M. Howing an annual custom of giving its employes a full y on Thanksgiving, there will be no issue of The Tribune Thursday of this week. The Wednesday edition of The Tribune will be the Thanks. giving number, carrying special features of the and in addi tion to providing au appropriate medium. for holiday greetings, will be especiz yaluable to merchants. One complete edition will be issued at noon and will delivered in the homes at 1 o'clock, giving the housewife -time to umns for estions before makir purel rch the advertising col fternoon and evening tising ould re is thesearly delivery tise Thanksgiving sp copy for Wednesday's paper s 1e tomorrow for best results to the benefit of all who Tr vert dy cay. ‘praper e| proceed to essions to foreigners in that} eryt DECEMBER 12 R DRAWS 10 YEARS FIGHT MADE ON ‘OMIPPING BILL {3 CHARGED 10 FOREIGN FIRMS British Ship Interests En- | gaged In Campaign to Prevent Passage of Subsidy, Says Plummer | MILWAUKEE, Wis., Nox: 27. — (By The Associated Press) —British and other for: jeign shipping interests and |journals are engaged in a \studied campaign of misrep- resentation and a campaign to defeat the Am an ship gubsidy bill, Bd: ¢|ward C. Plummer, commissioner of the United States shipping board, dq clared in a speech prepared for de livery today before the middle west Merchant Marine and foreign trade | conference. | Alarmed at the possibility that the | American ships will take from. theny some 68 cent of Americun exports whioh are now carried in foreign jships, the foreign shipping in this are lusing every possible meang to dis- |vourage the upbuilding of the mer- jchant marine in this country, Mr, Plummer said, | “They've been |in our pasture feeding thelr cattle so long that they come to think they own the land |he declated, “ so when we etart to |put in some stock of ou own they harge us with about hing from trespass to manslaugh- h district, Americans will get the te chance, Dr. Riza Nur Bey, one) Every sort of discrimination has the jJurkish plenipotentiaries at been practiced against American here declared to the) snips in foreign trade, Mr. Plummer said, but when Americans propose to |do a Httle discriminating in fayor of |the'r vessels British interests charge the United States is trying to erente a monopoly “When giant American. corpora- tions, like the Bethlehem company and the Texas company, each of them financially stronger than any BEuro- pean steamship concern an both of them ship builders as well as ship owners, find it necessary to cloge | their own ship yards and have thelr jown cargoes carried by foreign vea- |sels, what {s the answer?” Mr, Plum- mer asked. “When such as they find, as they do, that they can charter foreign ves- |sels for less money than it takes |menely to ope thelr own steam- ers under the American flag, what is the of settling up the claim— opponents of American. shipping that Amer! ships without gov- nment aid, compete with for- ships in carrying the commerce of the United States. sense “It can not be done! Every prac ticat shipping man knows that it can't be done; ey man who hag intejli- ntly studied the problem . knows t it can't be done, and therefore, y man who opposes ernment aid to Anierican shipping is opposed. to American ships. He wants for- elgn corporations to do our work, He it but that fs the fact ma just the me. Mr. Plummer pointed oat that hy a discriminatory Iaw in Australia, Aer ext to that coutnry paid duty equal the cost of transportation from the factory to-~ Pacifir port, if shipped over American but the export duty it hipped to Vancouver over Canadian flroads and from there in British WATER PACT AGREEMENT [S HIGHLY COM BY RECLAMATION MENDED CHIEF Me es sunate Cr wiiey ead au; Beene Peer al pa Oa merger, took the position that general) nion Faclfie might lose a large partyests of the Southern Pacific would De the Central Pac diBouttiern Lu | (et Ofte Annapolis midshipmen at SANTA a N.M Ney. 27.—*The unanimtous agreement by the Colorado river com- national interest required an- inde-|of jts present tonnuge and business.jopposed to the hest interests of t t RUEMAR ic ote ame in| mission upon the ger s of a compact for the division of the uses and protection of rights pendent Centrai Pacific. m order that}, the other hand, with-the Central | Central a ptatnWblid-atatamnent to the use of the Waters of the Colorado river and its tributaries is a signal victory for those tetas nee a Re oe van |Pacttic under management and. con-| carrie: etary Denby nf th pias and pope lacs which distinguish the civilized from the savage,” declared Arthur P, putin competitive operation. ‘The in-|trol singly and wholeheartedly-favor-] In crossexamination Mr. Mondell nent, who declared that members avis, director of the United States reclamation service, commenting upon the interstate terests of his state, he contended, arejable to the utilization and develop-| conceded that he was not informed as per annum, now 1 né corps had brought disgrace pact regarding the use’of the Colorado ba: igned at Santa Fe November 24. His particularly. effected. ment of the transcontinental systemS}to specific rates and service detai o Nevada employes he joint sy ay to themselves but on t statement continue and the conclusions may be said to,states_in which thousands of users “The matter now before the com-{the ,rallroads service now rendered in} but insisted that the general Wwiew}‘em, would be elim by acaderaye “It will obviate a va ch c'aim and more than he|are diverting its water, Its develops mission: is undoubtedly the most im- and to Wyoming would be extended, | taken justified the position. tion “How many shipmen drank | tcrimonious Itiga whigh a 9 1, in view of the original con-|ment involvec some of the largédt portant as affecting the interests of | enlarged and improved.” J. 8. Shanghne of. the Nevada] Claude L. Draper, man of the] heavily I do not know,” said the ned Imminent and has jand most difficult engineering proB: ‘Wyoming and its people that has been| Even in the absence of a supreme} public service commission, coming to service uiselon of Wyo-|retary’s statement, but he added that y for ‘ovision of flood of all|‘ems ever attemp‘ed, and a multituda or that is likely tovbe brought before |vourt decision, the commission would) the support of the Southern Pacifi followed up Mr. Mondell’s lespite the good behavior of many. nm s:0r urgent. with-'of complicated interest and possilile the commission,” Mr. Monde!l’ as-|be obliged to “favor and insist’? upon | application, declared“: with a study of rates énough m‘dshipmen had failed to do pensable to furth: n Of disputes -which have been — settled serted. “Other géntlemen will un-|an yndependent control ef the ‘Central | welfare of the state of ch in his judgment] their duty to’ their ‘uniform and to » Colorado river | the commission tlwithin eleven months’ instead of 21° doubtedly go into details ‘as population | Pacific, Mr, Mondell declared, adding | warded: by the present as Jesjrable from|their country to bring shame upon to the alternative years. dependent directly or indirectly upon! that “the decision had eliminated ull| tween the two roads.” Wyoming -rail-] an. He announced? that an investi. al contentions of the [re “AN good citizens should rejoice Th the road. 1 desire tovrefer merely to| questions as to the necessity of thej “The staty cove: desires 24 gation would be ordered. for apart that xe itution of reason and prog. the larger and-more general feature separation. Asserting. he and the rep} {fidorse its presents here just Idaho Ge chai nw . rf an re dd stagnation. . wf the sitnation, Unfriendly manage-jresentatives of his state,had no hys-}we would indorse the advanceme public servic argued | nip is due largely ment. of the Central Pacific might tility to the Southern Pdcific, he said on 0 is now wel, bout twenty times son othe broad minided « le of the easily create a situation in which the!they considered the individual inter- “We look upon unified would be adyan' as much as own bulk of water, dt sin weve (Continued on Page Four)